platform

Recognized the last 23 years as
the world's preeminent international
offshore industry event, the
Offshore Technology Conference
(OTC) will focus on the critical issues
of economics and the environment
affecting the international
petroleum industry.

As part of its strategy to foster business in the
high-speed marine transportation sector, Spain's
IZAR Group is collaborating with the British technical
consultancy Nigel Gee & Associates (NGA)
in the development of fast RoPax and RoRo vessel
designs.

The last vessel in a three-year,
three-ship reconstruction program
at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's
Sparrows Point Yard near Baltimore
was renamed the Pvt. Harry
Fisher by Congresswoman Helen D.
Bentley (R-Md.), guest of honor
and sponsor at the christening ceremonies.

Levingston Shipbuilding Company
has launched the Dixilyn-
Field 87 (shown above) at its
shipyard in Orange, Texas. The
triangular shaped, Levingston designed
Class 111-C jackup drilling
rig is 200 feet by 186 feet by
23 feet.
When this self-elevating drilling
platform is completed,